1Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Bricks Needed for Monticello Columns and Cisterns, [by 13 May 1822] (Jefferson Papers)
Estimate of bricks for 6. shafts of Dor. columns larger diam 23.I. dim d d o 20.1 I Shaft about 14.f. clear of base and cap. 16. headers lay a course ) to be laid in alternate courses 8. stretchers lay a course call each third of the column 5.f. or 20. courses suppose for the lowest & middle third, the large bric
2Francis Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 13 May 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I merely write a few lines to inform you of the success of my negociation : . Papa can only spare at present money for the purchase of two books, Bacon s Abridgement, and Thomas ’s Coke Littleton , which I beg you will send for with yours. the money you have in your hands it will therefore be no trouble to retain a sum sufficient to purchase the books and pay their freight, and this my Father...
3Thomas Jefferson to Richard Randolph, 13 May 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Apr. 10. was recieved in due time as had been some time before the 6. barrels of water proof cement from you. I had already laid in as much Roman cement as did my 2 d & 3 d Cisterns, with a barrel surplus towards the 4 th and last. the 2 d and 3 d were done under the superintendance of mr Coffee , and with perfect success. we opened a barrel of yours and he tried several fair and...
4Thomas Jefferson to Ritchie & Gooch, 13 May 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I am thankful to you for the paper you have been so kind as to send me, containing the arraignment of the Presidents of the US . generally as peculators or accessaries to peculation, by an informer who masks himself under the signature of ‘ a native Virginian .’ what relates to myself in this paper, (being his N o VI . and the only N o I have seen) I had before read in the Federal Republican...
5Samuel Smith (of Maryland) to Thomas Jefferson, 13 May 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
In publick life those to whom we render the greatest service are little sensible of it—I have rendered to Col o Monroe the greatest service that Could have been rendered to a President of the U. S —I have brought the publick expenditures within the receipts for which I ought to have his thanks, instead of the hostility (I fear) he entertains towards me. In 1819–20. I was Called to be Chairman...